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Kinder Morgan’s (NYSE:KMI) Trans Mountain pipeline has been long beleaguered by civilian and municipal government opposition. But last week, the Canadian government stepped in to ensure the pipeline would get made, and offered Kinder Morgan’s subsidiary a tidy $3.5 billion to take the project off their hands.

Total’s (NYSE:TOT) main business today may be oil and gas, but it’s making aggressive moves to become a leader in renewable energy as well. Late last week, CEO Patrick Pouyanne said Total was ready to build 10,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power plants in France, enough to power 1.64 million homes, over the next 10 years.

June 26, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.2% at 2,722.96. The DJIA closed up 0.1% at 24,281.07. Separately, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% at 7,561.63.

Tuesday was a positive day for the broad U.S. markets with each of the major exchanges recovering, if only slightly, from Monday. Crude oil was pushed much higher in the session, retreating over $70. The S&P 500 sectors were split down the middle.....More>>>

For a few years now, as I was covering the shale industry, I made it a point to highlight the need to pay very close attention to differing acreage quality within companies and between companies. It is a very important indicator of future profitability, which has been a very contentious issue in the past few years, as well as production growth prospects.

Former Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez, already accused of corruption by his own country, now faces a lawsuit from a Houston energy firm alleging that it lost almost half a billion dollars over its refusal to pay bribes for contracts.

Harvest Natural Resources Inc. said that because it rebuffed four separate $10 million bribe demands from associates of Ramirez, Venezuela’s power....More>>>

Shares of a handful of small independent oil and gas producers, as well as a number of smaller oilfield service and equipment providers fell more than 10% on May 25.Profire Energy, Inc.(NASDAQ:PFIE), which manufactures burner management systems for oil and gas companies, fell 14.5%, while offshore energy industry transportation specialistBristow Group Inc(NYSE:BRS) fell 12.6%.....More>>>

SAUSALITO, Calif. Maurizio Reggiani, the director of research and development for storied Italian supercar builder Lamborghini, takes in the knife-edge lines of his latest creation, the $275,000 Huracan Performante. He is pleased.

“This car represents so much of what we are,” says Reggiani, who joined CEO Stefano Domenicali for a breakfast interview with USA TODAY Tuesday. “We....More>>>

It may be a new year, but Russia makes no secret of its long-term dissatisfaction with U.S. politics, the dollar and, by extension, U.S. monetary hegemony in the world.

Russia has been under U.S./Western economic sanctions for over three years. Meanwhile, oil prices have been lower for longer, as the saying goes, due to global competition for market share from U.S. fracking. The overall impact....More>>>

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) just reported earnings and the Street is selling on the news. The energy sector as a whole was getting beat up last week, and this is the first substantial selloff we have seen in the name for some time. We like to look at the name from a long-term perspective, and that necessitates that we have a solid grasp on the fundamentals of the name, especially since this is the one....More>>>

On a day that OPEC actually announces a production cut, which is actually just announcing a formalized cut after previously announcing that a cut was coming, many of the top oil stocks have risen handily. Where the moves look really crazy is in the more speculative second-tier oil stocks which are either not as strong in the balance sheet or which are still down massively from their highs of 2014....More>>>

Tesla (TSLA) reported a wider than expected loss Wednesday after the bell, the biggest in the companys history. Teslas net loss for the quarter amounted to roughly $718 million, a considerable $4.22 cents a share.

Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM) released earnings on last Monday and missed expectations on earnings as well as on revenue. The revenue for 39 weeks ended was literally cut in half compared to 2016 revenue declined from $1.6 billion to $800 million, a net income of $316 million in 20

Music streaming service Spotify (MUSIC) will go public sooner rather than later. Reuters reported a valuation around $16 billion ahead of the expected IPO, while Fortune valued the company at $20 billion in September of this year. Apart from the numbers and the final valuation, Spotify going publ